I wanted to share two packages which provide useful functionality but are currently not available in Julia. The following two would make Julia even more attractable for users in / with #hpc . SSH Tunneling ( https://github.com/pahaz/sshtunnel ; Python package) TeX available to Julia ( TinyTeX - A…

Maybe this is a good idea for a GitHub list. Like a “Most Wanted” type of thing?

As always these kind of lists provide very little if any help. Instead of collecting lists and discussing about the lists the effort should be in implementing these missing packages. Alternatively, if you are missing some package or feature and you cannot implement it yourself then the most useful …

I have developed and maintain several registered packages as well as proprietary ones. The first step in deciding as an author to invest time and effort into developing something is knowing that there is a real need / benefit of making it available to the community. Identifying gaps is really helpfu…

You are right it’s better to find all who are interested in the topic before you start. And it’s nice to hear that you might have some time to contribute new packages as well. Currently, I don’t have direct need for either packages, but I think I could need both of them in the future.

I imagine the SSH tunneling might be best serve by someone from the JuliaWeb community with some threading experimentation. A pretty common use case for SSH tunnels is also when connecting to databases. @quinnj am I correct in that assessment? As for the TeX package, I would imagine it would be som…

A Tex binary distribution could certainly be built within Yggdrasil; I think there are competing, more lightweight alternatives today rather than the full texlive distribution that many of us are familiar with. I seem to remember a rust reimplementation being talked of positively a while back, but I…

The TinyTeX is a customized distribution that plays really well with R markdowns. From the TinyTeX documentation on its motivation You have to either install a basic version that is relatively small (several hundred MB) but basically doesn’t work, because it is very likely that certain frequently …

The full TeX distribution of all packages is large, and is easier to maintain at an operating system level. What I dont like about binary artifacts is that they take up a ton of unnecessary duplicate space with OS packaging. It would be nice to have TeX binaries available in CI jobs, but I wish thes…

There also seems to be a new package that does so Tectonic.jl . It might just check the second box. @mike does it play well with Weave?

[image] Nosferican: There also seems to be a new package that does so Tectonic.jl . It might just check the second box. @mike does it play well with Weave? Not tried it with Weave yet, but those are the kind of place that this should be suitable for, i.e. where you need PDF generation, but do…

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MICE is crucial for ML & currently super slow in R. Our ecosystem& the ML community would greatly benefit if there was a Julia implementation

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